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Family Balance Sheet

We also didn’t feel comfortable with Dave’s suggestion of a $1000 starter emergency fund, which is his step #1. The point of the starter emergency fund is to get you through until you pay off your non-mortgage debts, at which point, you build a more extensive fund. A guiding light!

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Family Balance Sheet

We charted out our course of action to pay off debts and start saving for retirement. We still refer to it often to remind ourselves of our goals and objectives. It’s taking forever for us to accomplish the step we’re on (paying off our non-mortgage debt), but we keep plugging away.